When the tumult of emotions that have been raised by the suddenness of the social change shall have subsided, it may prove that they will receive the kindest usage from some of those on whom they have heretofore most closely depended.
Johnson suggests that as emotions settle, freedmen may find better treatment from those they relied on in the past.
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I transmit the accompanying communications from the Secretary of the Interior, together with the papers to which they have reference.
I transmit herewith, in answer to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 16th of December last, a report from the Secretary of State of the 6th instant.
My object in this communication is to suggest certain defects in the Constitution which seem to me to require correction.
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